As we have explained in our last infrastructure post, we have been working to improve our backend for a while.Today marks the first day we started using the partial new backend (twitch data consumers for now) that runs dotnet core. Initial work on the new backend took a while but after now porting the rest of it will be lot easier.What next?We expect to port all of our backend code to new infrastructure soon. After that we’ll be able to implement our long-awaited features...

Here is our first infographic featuring trending games for March 2019.TwitchLeague of Legends was the most watched game last month.Apex Legends got fourth place in most watched games.Grand Theft Auto V increased its average viewer count by 63.5k and secured the first spot in gainers list.Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice got a total of 38.4k average viewers and secured the second spot in gainers list.SteamDota 2 and PUBG were the top two most played games on Steam.Path of Exile...

It has been nearly a month since our last blog post and it’s time to summarize the progress.So we have released a new version, 0.11.x in 25 March — though had a few quirks which we decided to fix them and post about it later.What’s new?We achieved a pretty major milestone in our todo list. We do now have trending games feature.With this update we calculate the delta changes between Twitch & Steam data updates which eventually allows us to render trending...

In last few days we released the new version of hypetraq. This version includes some stability improvements.We had an issue with importing new games — causing duplicate imports. We’ve fixed that and issues with duplicate slugs too. You should be able to browse all games in our database now without any issues.We have also fixed a few minor issues, nothing major but mostly QOL changes.

We had some issues with the UI for a while (as noted on our reddit announcement).It was a good opportunity to go for an UI improvement & bug-fix feature freeze period and after a few days of work we have now a more clean interface.Here are a few screenshots from the update: Feel free to join our discord server if you have any feedback.

It has been 8 months since our last update and seems it’s a good time to go for a general update. So here is what’s happening lately.Renamed project: hypetraq.comAs you may remember our old domain was hypetra.in which we decided to drop and got a brand new one; hypetraq.com! You can still access the site through our old domain but it’s a good idea to update your bookmarks.Recap: what is hypetraq?So for new comers we wanted to recap our project;hypetraq.com...

We havea just pushed 0.0.10 release today with a bunch of bugfixes & improvements.Fixed a bug major bug with steam data collector where most of the games were never queried.Further improved our steam data collector, it’s now faster and thankfully we’ll be able to collect per-hour samples for every game in steam database!Added cool stats to our front page. Everybody loves stats and yes we a total of 19k games in our database!

hypetraq.com is yet another game statistics tracker which is still under development.So what is it about?hypetraq.com is our take on tracking, analyzing and measuring hype for games that we have been working for a while.How it is different?You may ask about how it is different than steamspy, steamcharts, steamdb. We can sum up the differences as;First and foremost, hypetraq.com does not only track steam but also tracks other valuable data sources like twitch and google trends.It...